Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research/Areas of Interest: geotechnical earthquake engineering, seismic hazard mapping, natural hazards

Research/Areas of Interest: multiphase flow and transport in porous media, liquid-liquid and solid-liquid equilibria, sols and emulsions, surfactants and interfaces, mass transfer, biotransformation, emerging contaminants

Research/Areas of Interest: structural engineering, concrete design, bridge analysis and design, structural analysis/design

Research/Areas of Interest: drinking water quality and toxic materials, groundwater monitoring

Research/Areas of Interest: Mathematical models of material behavior; Nonlinear magneto- and electromechanical interactions; Biomechanics of soft materials; Rubber elasticity and inelasticity

Research/Areas of Interest: Air pollution monitoring, mobile monitoring, air pollution modeling, ambient air quality, indoor air quality, air pollution control, air pollution exposure, air pollution epidemiology

Research/Areas of Interest: geotechnical, laboratory testing, automation, soil behavior, physical properties, mechanical properties, material science

Research/Areas of Interest: environmental and occupational epidemiology, environmental health and safety

Research/Areas of Interest: Offshore Wind Energy Structural Design Earthquake Engineering

Research/Areas of Interest: urban air population, transportation emissions

Research/Areas of Interest: Water Diplomacy, Principled Pragmatism, Data Driven Decision Making, Climate and Health, Remote Sensing, Flood Forecasting

Research/Areas of Interest: design, behavior, and modeling of concrete structures

Research/Areas of Interest: • Hydrologic Extremes • Water Resources in a Changing World • Energy Systems Modeling • Robust Adaptive Planning

Research/Areas of Interest: hydrology, water resources systems, IWRM

Research/Areas of Interest: Probabilistic system identification of structures, signal processing, Bayesian inference, model updating, structural dynamics, earthquake engineering, uncertainty quantification, verification and validation of computational models.

Research/Areas of Interest: cognition and learning sciences, science education, engineering education, diversity and identity, technology and education, language and cognition, multicompetence

Research/Areas of Interest: Bridge structural health monitoring, building train-induced vibrations, nondestructive testing of full-scale structures, fatigue life prediction of structures with nonproportional multi-axial loading.

Research/Areas of Interest: 1) Infrastructure management during uncertain contexts 2) Understanding public perceptions towards the built environment 3) Sustainable water technology adoption

Research/Areas of Interest: Environmental health, environmental epidemiology, air pollution, extreme weather, exposure science, data analytics

Research/Areas of Interest: Science focused on energy, development and environmental management. Computational modeling of electrical grid integration of renewable energy and storage. Interaction of science and policy in academia, industry and government

Research/Areas of Interest: Research focuses on sustainable development and innovative engineering education, at times combining the two. Specific research projects include: 1) service-based education and how it can be best assessed and utilized in engineering and 2) waste minimization and reuse of traditional waste materials.

Research/Areas of Interest: - Resilient and equitable infrastructure - Impacts of extreme events (e.g., drought, flood, wildfire) in a changing climate on infrastructure and communities - Climate adaptation of infrastructure - Slopes, dams, and levees - Unsaturated soil mechanics - Multi-physics (e.g., hydro-mechanical, thermo-hydro-mechanical) processes in soils - Analytical and numerical methods in geotechnical engineering

Research/Areas of Interest: applied mathematics and mechanics for geophysical and engineering problems

Research/Areas of Interest: epidemiologic methods